Taganrog
Taganrog is the second largest city in Rostov Oblast, Russia known as the home city of Anton Chekhov.
Photo: Mark Antokolsky, Public domain.- Type: City with 245,000 residents
- Description: port city in Rostov Oblast in southern Russia
- Also known as: “Tahanrih”, “Tahanroh”, “Таганро́г”, “タガンローク”, “タガンローグ”, “タガンロク”, and “塔甘羅格灣”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Birth house of Anton Chekhov and Alferaki Palace.
Anton Chekhov Theatre
Theater building
Photo: ISasha, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petrushino.
Taganrog
- Categories: big city, city or town, port city, City of oblast significance, and locality
- Location: Rostov Oblast, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.2155° or 47° 12′ 56″ north
Longitude
38.9284° or 38° 55′ 42″ east
Population
245,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Established
1698
IATA airport code
TGK
UN/LOCODE
RU TAG
Open location code
8GVW6W8H+58
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Taganrog” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تاغانروغ”
- Armenian: “Տագանրոգ”
- Asturian: “Taganrog”
- Azerbaijani: “Taqanroq”
- Bashkir: “Таганрог”
- Basque: “Taganrog”
- Belarusian: “Таганрог”
- Bengali: “তাগানরোগ”
- Bulgarian: “Таганрог”
- Catalan: “Taganrog”
- Cebuano: “Taganrog”
- Chechen: “Таганрог”
- Chinese: “塔甘罗格”
- Chinese: “塔甘羅格”
- Chuvash: “Таганрог”
- Crimean Tatar: “Taganrog”
- Croatian: “Taganrog”
- Czech: “Taganrog”
- Danish: “Taganrog”
- Dutch: “Taganrog”
- Eastern Mari: “Таганрог”
- Esperanto: “Taganrog”
- Esperanto: “Taganrogo”
- Estonian: “Taganrog”
- Finnish: “Taganrog”
- French: “Taganrog”
- Galician: “Taganrog”
- Georgian: “ტაგანროგი”
- German: “Taganrog”
- Greek: “Ταγκανρόγκ”
- Gujarati: “ટેગાનરોગ”
- Hawaiian: “Pakanol (kūlanakauhale)”
- Hebrew: “טאגאנרוג”
- Hindi: “तन्गंरोग”
- Hungarian: “Taganrog”
- Indonesian: “Taganrog”
- Interlingua: “Taganrog”
- Irish: “Taganrog”
- Italian: “Taganrog”
- Japanese: “タガンログ”
- Kalmyk: “Таганрог балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಗನ್ರೋಗ್”
- Komi-Permyak: “Таганрог”
- Korean: “타간로크”
- Ladin: “Taganrog”
- Latin: “Taganrogium”
- Latvian: “Taganroga”
- Lezghian: “Таганрог”
- Lithuanian: “Taganrogas”
- Macedonian: “Таганрог”
- Malagasy: “Taganrog”
- Malay: “Taganrog”
- Manx: “Taganrog”
- Marathi: “टॅगॅनरॉग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Taganrog”
- Mongolian: “Таганрог”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taganrog”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taganrog”
- Norwegian: “Taganrog”
- Ossetian: “Таганрог”
- Panjabi: “ਤਗੰਨਰੋਗ”
- Persian: “تاگانروگ”
- Piemontese: “Taganrog”
- Polish: “Taganrog”
- Pontic: “Ταγκανρόγκ”
- Portuguese: “Taganrog”
- Romanian: “Taganrog”
- Russian: “Таганрог”
- Scots: “Taganrog”
- Serbian: “Taganrog”
- Serbian: “Таганрог”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taganrog”
- Silesian: “Taganrog”
- Sindhi: “ٽيگنروگ”
- Sinhala: “ටැගන්රොග්”
- Slovak: “Taganrog”
- Slovenian: “Taganrog”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاقانروق”
- Spanish: “Taganrog”
- Swahili: “Taganrog”
- Swedish: “Taganrog”
- Tagalog: “Taganrog”
- Tajik: “Taganrog”
- Tajik: “Таганрог”
- Talysh: “Taganrog”
- Tamil: “ட்டகன்றாக்”
- Tamil: “தாகன்ரோக் நகரம்”
- Tatar: “Таганрог”
- Telugu: “టాగన్రోగ్”
- Thai: “ตากานรอก”
- Turkish: “Taganrog”
- Ukrainian: “Таганріг”
- Ukrainian: “Таганрог”
- Ukrainian: “Таґанроґ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Taganrog”
- Urdu: “تاجانروج”
- Urdu: “ٹاگن روگ”
- Uzbek: “Taganrog”
- Venetian: “Taganrog”
- Veps: “Taganrog”
- Vietnamese: “Taganrog”
- Waray (Philippines): “Taganrog”
- Welsh: “Taganrog”
- Western Armenian: “Թականրոկ”
- Western Armenian: “Թայղան” (historical)
- Western Panjabi: “تاگانروگ”
- Wu Chinese: “塔甘罗格”
- Yue Chinese: “塔甘羅格”
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